Harwood Historic District, Historic district in downtown Dallas, US.

Harwood Historic District is a locally protected commercial district on the east end of downtown Dallas, covering the blocks fronting Harwood Street from Pacific Avenue to Canton Street. Its buildings date from the 1880s to the 1950s and range from Italianate and Beaux-Arts to Sullivanesque, Neo-classical, Renaissance Revival, Art Moderne, Art Deco and Modern. In the photograph, a light stone building with a columned portico and pediment stands beside a tall red-brown brick facade with blue-glazed windows, with a cream-colored building and a modern tower behind.

The district developed from the 1880s through the 1950s as Dallas expanded its commercial activity and merchants built offices and shops along these streets. Each decade added new architectural layers reflecting the city's changing tastes and economic growth.

Harwood Street was known in the 1920s as shop row, where the city's vaudeville suppliers kept their premises. At the turn of the twentieth century the street carried merchants and bankers between their mansions in The Cedars and their downtown offices. Many contributing buildings now serve residential or commercial uses with few changes to their historic appearance, while others stand vacant awaiting restoration.

The district covers the blocks along Harwood Street from Pacific Avenue to Canton Street, at the east end of downtown Dallas, crossing the City Center, Main Street and Farmers Market districts. Walk the sidewalks to read the facades; some contributing buildings are vacant and awaiting restoration, so interiors are not open. The light stone portico and the brick facade with blue-glazed windows face each other across the street.

In the 1920s Harwood Street was known as shop row, housing the city's vaudeville suppliers; the district was designated a local historic district in 1990 and most of it joined the larger Dallas Downtown Historic District in 2009.